BITE user comments - Mr_Jollyur
Comments by Mr_Jollyur
Used to be a good old-style boozer but has lost a lot of its character recently. Where once it was usually always busy (even at off-peak times) with jolly boozers and old scrotes of varying degrees of rancidity, now there are usually fewer but more respectable looking types and families with toddlers (children previously not allowed, the acoustics of the confined space do tend to amplify their cries...). OK choice of beers, which are usually OK but rotated where there once once always a dependable house ale. Service has fallen off where once it was spot-on and friendly, now is average.
12 Oct 2012 13:16
Have been in a few times recently drawn by the well-kept St.Austell beers including �2-60 pint Dartmoor Ale. Great to drink on a summers day right by the weir watching the salmon ("the" singular, there is only one, he's call Ken) leap.
12 Oct 2012 12:58
For real cider fundamentalists, last chance likely lads and walking dead only, for whom there should rightly be a place to go. It fulfills that role admirably. Normals, it's probably not for you.
12 Oct 2012 12:55
A good place to wile away few hours over a pint (usually OK, check first) with the best free entertainment in Exeter looking out the window watching the near-misses and susbsequent altercations from drivers attempting to negotiate the complex double-mini roundabout immediately to the front of the pub. Chinese food great.
12 Oct 2012 12:49
Good range of well-kept beers. Food excellent, not cheap though. A bit of a London feel to it as befits many of the DFL inhabitants of the expensive locality who frequent it, a few of whom have brought their London frostiness with them to Devon.
12 Oct 2012 12:46
From the outside it looks like the set of the Albanian version of "Crossroads". Inside the decor is suitably Little England with pictures of Winston Churchill etc and there is an ample beer garden overlooking the carpark. Usually busy with oldsters and families there for the cheap and plentiful stodge, so far, so expected but,... everytime I have been in here the beer has been perfect. I usually have the Butcombe, my favourite and it is only �2.25 (not chilled), with prompt polite service. Great!
12 Oct 2012 12:41
The Bowling Green, Exeter
Always reliable real ale pub (under current ownership) with Doom Bar, Otter and stronger/summer ales always on tap. If it ain't perfect they'll change it. All the usual cooking and ranting lagers. Food is wholesome with big portions and home-cooked, all served by crisis-inducingly attractive bar and kitchen maids. Long bar with pool/games area round the side with plenty of room for the varied clientele to mix or avoid each as suits. Frequented by eclectic clientele of local geysers, students, townies having one on the way into town, more students, singing Welshmen, townies who never made it into town, bedsit wierdo's, ex-students gone native, incorrigible scrotes, gits and odd normal. Dogs welcome, home to a great pub dog who has, thankfully, stopped leg-humping. Regular bands, usually of a geyser variety, to jump and down and pretend it's 1982 again to. Quizzes, film-nights and conversation of a level of inanity rarely found today. A sun-trap seating area out the back. The only real pub left in central Exeter. Amen.
12 Oct 2012 14:21